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Perri's woolly hats, both tight-fitting (left) and baggy. Photograph: Sarah Lee

by Perri Lewis

It's week three of January and you've probably already reneged on your new year's resolutions. Perhaps a better way to ease yourself into 2010 is to go down another route: spend the year learning something new, rather than promising to make use of that gym pass three times a week.

If you didn't take up knitting back in 2004 when newspapers were falling over themselves to declare it The New Thing To Do, now could be the time. It's nicely armchair-based, unlike typical January pledges, and if you want, you can tell yourself that it's just as good for you as a trip to the gym. Look, even Aunty Beeb and CBS say so.....

Read more at -  http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/13/knitting-pattern-winter-hat